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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>
Subject: bug#22686: closed (Re: bug#22686: An empty string marked for
 translation)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:11:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#22686: An empty string marked for translation

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 22686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>,
 22686-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22686: An empty string marked for translation
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:10:40 -0800

On 15/02/16 11:10, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> On line 955 of src/stty.c there is an empty string marked for
> translation.
> 
> 	  fputs (_("\
>     "), stdout);
> 
> This might actually be harmful.  Po files use the translation of the
> empty string as a header.  So depending on the gettext implementation,
> it might be replaced by a header which I'm sure isn't intended.
> (Maybe GNU gettext guards against this, I haven't investigated.  But
> even if so, it is still pretty pointless to mark it for translation.)

Ouch it does output the header when translating (so not for English).
I pushed the fix in your name:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.25-6-g222e830

thanks!
Pádraig.

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From: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: An empty string marked for translation
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:10:52 +0100

On line 955 of src/stty.c there is an empty string marked for
translation.

	  fputs (_("\
    "), stdout);

This might actually be harmful.  Po files use the translation of the
empty string as a header.  So depending on the gettext implementation,
it might be replaced by a header which I'm sure isn't intended.
(Maybe GNU gettext guards against this, I haven't investigated.  But
even if so, it is still pretty pointless to mark it for translation.)

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